The gallery will be closed tomorrow Saturday, May 25 for Memorial Day weekend. The gallery will reopen on Tuesday, May 28 with regular hours.
Chip Hooper: From the Edge is on view through June 29. In this series, Hooper takes us on a visual journey as he contemplated his own existence in the world. Inspired by Mark Rothko's color field paintings, Hooper turned his camera to the horizon line to articulate his deep and spiritual relationship with large expanses of water. Through images of sublime color, Hooper found the ability to clearly understand the ocean’s place and role in his life and work.
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Robert Mann Gallery will be closed Saturday, May 25 for Memorial Day weekend. The gallery will reopen on Tuesday, May 28 with regular hours. Chip Hooper: From the Edge is on view through June 29.
📸: Chip Hooper, Sundown, Hurricane Point, 2000.
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It’s #NationalMaritimeDay and with that we celebrate with a beautiful work by Elijah Gowin! Gowin's work has always been simultaneously engaged with questions around belief, ritual and memory as well as the material status of photographic representation. 📸: Elijah Gowin, Ship 1, 2005, Pigment inkjet print, 22 x 33 inches, Edition of 15.
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Brand new work by Julie Blackmon, Talent Show, 2019. The artist’s work is currently on view at Photo London.
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This week’s #saturdaystaffpick was chosen by Robert Mann and is currently on view at Photo London (Booth G10). This is one of my favorite portfolios from Jeff Brouws' Typology studies inspired by Bernd & Hilla Becher. In his Freshly Painted (Tract) House series, Jeff Brouws, who grew up in Daly City, California, returned to his former neighborhood to document yet another cultural shift: an influx of Asian immigrants moving into a former all-white enclave who painted their houses in colors then unfamiliar to a pre-Martha Stewart, middle-class America. While mildly humorous, the photographs nonetheless show us an important moment in the history of suburbia, where one ethnic group attains home ownership to grab hold of the American Dream as an earlier group, further up the economic ladder takes “white flight." 📸: Jeff Brouws, Freshly Painted Houses Portfolio, 1991, Group of 24 archival pigment prints, 7 x 7 inches, Edition of 9.
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We are at Photo London this weekend in booth G10. The fair’s public hours are Saturday from 12-7:30pm and Sunday from 12-6:30pm.
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#Sneakpeek A detail from Julie Blackmon’s new work in progress, “Talent Show,” 2019. In Blackmon's photographs, children live, play, grow bored, make up stories, act them out and play some more, as if unaware of the camera. The artist creates scenes that are filled with resonant details that thicken the sense of place and implied narrative.
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Tonight Sothbey’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction will feature Mark Rothko’s Untitled, 1960 from the collection of SFMOMA, sold to benefit the acquisition fund.
As Rothko’s health declined his colorfield paintings settled into a deep, rich palate of purples, blues, and reds, which invite you to devote a sustained amount of time with each work to allow the details and intricacies to reveal themselves. Similarly, Chip Hooper’s monumental color prints, from his current solo exhibition at the gallery, sing with brilliant yet somber hues and invite you to enter into his contemplative state of mind and evoke different meanings depending on the viewer. To spend sustained time with each piece is to let their insight and spirituality wash over you. Chip Hooper: From the Edge will be on view through June 29th.
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📸: (Right): Chip Hooper, #71, Black Point, 2012, Archival pigment print, 59 x 45 inches, Edition of 5. (Left): Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1960, Oil on canvas, 69 x 50 1/8 inches.
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This week’s #staffpicksaturday was chosen by Gallery Preparator, Emma Ressel.
In the 1990’s, Michiko Kon rose to prominence as one of Japan’s most widely recognized female photographers. Her still life photographs are singular in their outrageous and otherworldly content. She uses fish and animal parts to construct familiar objects, such as clothing and shoes, which has the powerful affect of combining the grotesque and ordinary into something entirely uncanny. Many of her works are in black and white, though this piece, The Red Chair, is in a sensuous red, which calls to mind violence, pain, and lust. 📸: Michiko Kon, The Red Chair, 1994, chromogenic dye coupler print, 22 x 18 inches, edition of 10.
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